LOCAL members of the 350.org, a non-governmental organisation that advocates on Climate Change, are supporting their French counterparts after a global climate change march was cancelled.
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“And in hundreds of towns and cities across the world people will still march for the climate, for Paris and for our shared humanity”.
Expectations are high for the Paris Climate Change Summit due to begin on November 30, 2015.
The November 29 march, which organizers expected to attract as many as 200,000 demonstrators, was seen as the biggest media draw of a conference that activists are calling the most important climate event of their lifetimes.
Meanwhile, he stressed that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remains committed to working with leaders to achieve a successful outcome in Paris, recalling that last week, he spoke to G20 leaders on climate change, and urged them to guide their negotiators to achieve ambitious outcomes in Paris. Both of those events, according to Haeringer, are slated to go ahead as planned.
Underlining that the two-week conference in Paris is not the end point, Pasztor said “it must mark the floor, not the ceiling of our ambition”. “We need to take action to limit these temperature increases, but we have a challenge to do so while meeting the parallel challenges of ensuring food security and maintaining European Union competitiveness”.
They called for a better transparency system to build trust and confidence in the Paris pact, as well as means to review the actions and support of various parties. The next day, following a police raid of an apartment building in a Paris suburb that left two people dead and eight arrested, the head of Paris police told environmental and activist leaders that all outside demonstrations would be canceled for the duration of the climate talks.
Climate Institute deputy chief executive Erwin Jackson said the process in the lead-up to Paris had put pressure on countries including Australia to pledge emissions reduction targets.
The use of non-binding national commitments to act on climate change is the most “exciting” and necessary result required from next month’s global climate change summit, in Paris, says climate change policy expert Suzi Kerr.
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At latest count 2,173 events, including over 50 major marches, are planned worldwide as part of the Global Climate March on 28 and 29th of November. Top world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will participate in the inaugurals of the summit which is expected to conclude with signing a global climate deal after 11 days of final round of negotiations on December 11.
